Arman vs Armina

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Arman Armina

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 86 years in which either name was published, Arman for 73 years and Armina for 13 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

• 1889–1916 Armina ahead
• 1917 Arman ahead
• 1919–1923 Armina ahead
• 1924 Arman ahead
• 1926 Armina ahead
• 1927–1928 Arman ahead
• 1930 Armina ahead
• 1931–1934 Arman ahead
• 1937 Armina ahead
• 1939 Arman ahead
• 1940 Armina ahead
• 1943–2025 Arman ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Armans alive today are over 18; half the Arminas are over 11. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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